** Just as it's also despicable there will never be a movie that gives us the real Jim Garrison, who wasn't what Oliver Stone depicted in "JFK" by any stretch of the imagination. Hollywood has been responsible for some dishonorable tellings of history over the last several decades **
"The last several decades" would have to mean almost 100 years.
The very first successful feature film, Birth of a Nation, was fictionalized to the point that the entire thrust of the story was racist.
Even in the era when parents could watch most American films with their children, many films fictionalized real events and angered those who had been involved in them even though the films were child-friendly. The 1951 classic film Fourteen Hours used, or, more accurately, misused a real event in 1938 in which the lives of midtown Manhattan pedestrians were put at risk. The screenwriter, director and movie studio executive Spyros Skouras fictionalized many parts of it, including the important issue of how the dangerous incident was resolved. It is very possible that the movie angered many people who had been directly affected by the actual incident in 1938.
Children could have been walking in midtown Manhattan very close to the scene of the potential disaster. Some people who were children in 1938 remain alive and talkative today. They might express some feelings about the fictionalized Fourteen Hours.
D. W. Griffith had a lot of success with Birth of a Nation several years before someone else made the first ever documentary film. If you account for documentaries, which are usually more successful on television than in theaters, we do indeed have several visual and sound bite experiences for young people in which they learn that Jim Garrison was a liar.
Other documentaries have pointed out that despite Garrison's fraud, many sane people including Chief Justice Earl Warren and Tom Wicker said the whole truth about the JFK assassination wasn't known yet to the public, therefore others who believe that are hardly nutty or paranoid.
If you say both Warren and Wicker said Oswald acted alone, no doubt about it, then you are the liar.
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